Bottle-filling machine.



No. 740,997. PATENTBD 0013.6, 1903.

J. K. WEED. 4

" BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23, 1903.

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PATENTED OUT. 6, 1903.

J. WEED. BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23. 1903.

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PATENTED 001*. 6, 190a.

ir. K. WEED. I BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 23, 1903.

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m5 mnms rains co nucraumo UNITED. STATES iatented October 6. 1903.

PATENT OFFICE. 1

JACOB K. WEED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO S. TWITOHELL COMPANY, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, A COR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

S1 ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 740,997, dated October 6, 1903.

Application filed July 23, 1903. $erial No. 166,784. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JACOB K. WEED, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to certain im-' provements in a bottle-filling machine of the type illustrated and described in United States Letters Patent No. 703,870, granted tome under date of July 1, A. D. 1902, in which the bottles to be filled with carbonated or other liquids are fed to the filling-head of such a machine and then removed therefrom; and in such connection it relates to the general construction and arrangement of such a ma chine to improve and thus perfect the operation thereof.

The principal objects of my invention are,

to provide a revolving table with removable cups or receptacles adapted to receive the bottles and to permit of the raising and low ering of the same by the machine independently of the table; third, to provide cups or receptacles for the bottles with a gripping or clamping device adapted to engage and hold the bottles in proper position and permit of tilting of the same; fourth, to provide in a bottle-filling machine means to rotate the table, cups, or receptacles and bottles with a step-by-step movement to bring the bottles to be filled successively into the filling position below the filling-head of the machine and the yielding table thereof and to lock the table in such position, and, fifth, to provide in a bottle-filling machine means adapted to engage a bottle after the filling of the same to permit of the release of the spring-latch of a sealing-disk of the bottle from the draw-hook of the filling-head of the machine.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a front elevational View of the upper portion of a bottle-filling machine provided with a revolving table embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view, partlyin section and partlyin front elevation, illustrating a bottle in engagement with the filling-head of the machine and showing also the means for disengaging the sealing device for the bottle from the draw-hook of the machine. Fig. 2 is a detail View, partlyin section and partly in elevation, illustrating the means for locking the revolving table in a position to permit of the filling of a bottle. Fig.

3 is a top or plan view of the revoluole table,- illustrating one of the removable cups or receptacles adapted to receive and hold a bottle as removed from the table and one cup thereof without a bottle and also illustrating the means for locking and holding the table in a position to permit of the filling of a bottle by the machine. Fig; 4 is a detail view taken on the line X X in Fig. 1, certain portions of the machine being removed, illustrating in top or plan View the means adapted to impart a step-by-step movement to the table; and Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating in top or plan view a brake device to retard the movement of the table Referring to the drawings, there has been illustrated as to several features a machine of the type of mypriorpatent, No. 703,870, of July 1, 1902, and such features of the machine have not been lettered on the drawings nor described, as it has been deemed necessary only to make reference to the said patent as to its structure and to confine the literal description and lettering of the parts of the machine illustrated of my said prior patent, to

plicable, to that portion and parts of the said machine which constitute the essential features of my present invention, in which Ct represents a revolving disk or table which is engaged and held in a horizontal position by a shaftb, movabl y arranged in the bed-plate c of the bottle-filling machine, as shown in Fig. 1. The table a is provided with openings a, adapted to receive cups or receptacles d,into which the bottles 6 are placed. Each of the cups or receptacles d is supported in the table a by a laterally-projecting rim shaped support g.

or flange d, which in the normal position of the cups d rests upon the table a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Each of the cups d is, moreover, provided with a vertically-arranged bar or rod d engaging an extension a of the openings at of the table a and in this manner preventing the cups d from turning Within the openings a. At the end of the bar (Z of each of the cups d is arranged a springclamp (1 which serves to engage and hold the bottle 6 in proper position within the cup d and is assisted therein by a yielding pad or washer d carried by the clamp d against which the bottle (2 rests for a purpose to be presently more fully explained. The central axis of the openings at of the table or disk a is arranged in alinement with the vertical axis of the filling-head f and the yielding table g of the bottle-filling machine, and hence it follows that when the table a is rotated for a distance corresponding to the distance of two openings at a cup d and bottle 6 will be brought directly below the filling-head f and above the yielding table 9, as shown in Fig. 2.

The preferred mechanisms for imparting a step-by-step rotary movement to the table a are as follows: As shown in Fig. 2, at the end of the shaft 1), rotating the table a, is arranged a ratchet-wheel 19*, which is engaged by a pawl b carried by a sleeve 5 surrounding the shaft b and supported by the ratchetwheel b The sleeve 1), by means of a link 19 is pivotally connected with a bell-crank lever b the roller b of which is arranged in the path of a eamdisk I), carried by a shaft 72. At each revolution of the shaft it, imparted to the same by means not shown, the cam-disk b is brought into engagement with the roller b of the bell-crank lever b, which, through the intervention of the link b sleeve b and pawl b imparts to the table a a movement which brings the cup d and bottle 6 below the filling-headfin regular sequence. As soon as a cup CZ and bottle 6 have been placed above the table g of the bottle-filling machine acam Z, secured to the shaft 71, is brought into engagement with a roller g of a cup-shaped support g for the table 9 and raises the same. The table g is held within the support 9' by means of guide-rods g and is supported therein by springs gflengaging the guide-rods 9 which springs g as soon as the neck 6 of the bottle e has entered the filling-head fand engaged a washer or gasket f thereof, permits of a lowering of the table 9 within the cup- In this position the bottle e is held until the same is filled with liq uid in a manner and by means similar to that shown and described in my prior patent, No. 703,870. As soon as the filling of the bottle e with liquid is completed the draw-hook Zr of a draw-rod Z0, terminating in the fillingchamber f of the filling-head f, which has been brought-into engagement with the'springlatch Z of the sealing-disk or stopper Z, is raised, and thus closes the bottle by the sealing-disk Z in a well-known manner. After the bottle e has been closed by the sealingdisk Z the draw-hook Z0 is again lowered, as shown in Fig. 2,in which position the springlatch Z of the sealing-disk Zis freed from the draw-hook 7c and is automatically disengaged therefrom by the following preferred mechanism:

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, adjacent to the bottle 6 and the catni is arranged a leverarm m, pivotally secured in the point m to the bed-plate c of the machine. When the draw-hook It has been lowered to free the spring-latch Z of the sealing-disk or stopper Z, the upper end m of the lever-arm m, by means of a cam projection 'Z, secured to the cam Z, engaging the lower portion "m of the same, is brought into engagement with the neck (2 of the bottle 6 and tends to tilt the same toward the rightin Fig. 2. At the same time the roller 9 of the cup-shaped support g for the yielding table 9 has reached the end of the throw portion 1' of the cam i and is descending, as shown in Fig. 2. This downward movement of the support g permits the table g, still under the tension of the springs g, to follow this downward movement, and the neck e of the bottle 6 is gradually released from the gasket f of the filling-headfl The end m of the lever-arm m bearing against the neck e of the bottle e tilts the same toward the right, as shown in Fig. 2, and brings the spring-latch Z of the sealing-disk Z out of engagement with the draw-hook Z0 of the draw-rod 7c. e in the cup d the' same rests against the pad (Z of the clamp d which returns the bottle to its normal vertical position as soon as the neck e is entirely freed from the filling-head f by the complete lowering of the support g and table g. In order to hold the revolving table at, its cup d, and the bottle 6, placed therein, in their proper position in alinement with the filling-head f, the same is provided at the periphery with notches a one of which is engaged in each fixed position of the table a by a bolt 0, arranged in a bracket 0', secured to the bed-plate c, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The locking-bolt 0 is held in its normally depressed position and out of engagement with the revolving table a by a spring o ,bearing against the under side of the bed-plate c, and a collar 0 secured to the bolt 0, as shown in Fig. 2. The bolto is raised at predetermined intervals and brought into engagement with a notch or of the revolving table a by means of a cam r, secured to the shaft h and engaging a lever-arm T, which engages the end of the bolt 0, and this leverarm is pivotall y connected with a bracket r as shown in Fig. 2. In order to retard the movement of the revolving table a and to hold the same in each position, the shaft 1) thereof is provided with a disk 3, resting on During the tilting of the bottle a bracket 3, secured to the bed-plate o. The disk sis preferably engaged by a band-brake the ends 5 of which are adj ustably secured to a projection s of the bracket 3 by a bolt 8 as shown in Fig. 5, whereby upon the tightening of the band brake 5 upon the disk 5, integral with the shaft b, the frictional contact between the bandbrake s and disk 8 may be increased or decreased according to the degree of tightening of said band-brake to retard the movement of the shaft b and also to permit of the arresting of the table a, cups or receptaclesd,and bottles ewhen therein in the filling position of the machine.

It will be manifestly obvious that as to some of the details of the machine as described modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of my said invention, and hence I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to all the details thereof as illustrated and described; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. In a machine of the character described, a filling-head, a draw-hook arranged therein and a yielding table, a revolving table having openings, cups or receptacles adapted to receive and support bottles having springlatches and sealing-disks, means connected with said on ps or receptacles adapted to clamp and hold said bottles in proper position and to permit of tilting of the same Within said cups or receptacles, means adapted to rotate said revolving table to bring a cup and bottle with its spring-latch below said filling-head and its draw hook and above said yielding table, means adapted to raise and lower said yielding table to bring said cup and bottle and its spring-latch into engagement with said filling-head audits draw-hook,and means adapted to engage said bottle when lowered to move said spring-latch out of the path of said draw-hook.

2. .In a machine of the character described, a filling-head and a yielding table,a revolving table having openings, cups 0r receptacles adapted to receive and support bottles arranged in said openings, means connected with said cups adapted to hold said bottles in a vertical position Within said cups or receptacies and return the same thereto when moved out of said vertical position, means adapted to rotate said revolving table to bring a cup and a bottle below said head and above said yielding table, means adapted to retard the rotary movement ofsaid revolving table, and means adapted to lock said revolvin g table in the filling position.

3. In a machine of the character described, a filling-head and a yielding table,a revolving table having openings and extensions, cups or receptacles adapted to receive and support bottles arranged in said openings and supported by said revolving table, a bar connected with each cup or receptacle adapted to engage the extension of said opening to prevent the turning of each cup or receptacle in said revolving table, a clamp carried by said bar adapted to engage said bottle, a yielding pad carried by said clamp adapted to engage said bottle and to hold the same in conjunction with said clamp in proper position'within the cup or receptacle and to return the same thereto when moved out of such position, and means adapted to be brought intoengagement with a bottle to tilt the same in its supporting-cup.

4. In a machine of the character described, a filling-head, a draw-hook, and a yielding table,a revolving table having openings, cups or receptacles adapted to receive and support bottles having spring-latches and sealingdisks arranged in said openings,bars connectedwithsaid cups or receptacles adapted to support clamps,yielding pads or washers connected with said clamps adapted to engage bottles and to hold the same in conjunction with said clamps in proper position in said cups in respect to said filling-head, means adapted to actuate said revolving table, to bring a cup and a bottle with its spring-latch below said filling head and its drawhook and above said yielding table, means adapted to lock said table in each position, means adapted to raise and lower said yielding table to bring said cup or receptacle, its bottle and spring-latch into engagement with said filling-head and its draw-hook, a lever-arm actuated by said raising means and adapted to tilt the bottle during the lowering of the same to move its spring-latch out of the path of said draw-hook.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses.

JACOB K. W'EED. tVitnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

